The objective of this open tender is, per each target country (USA, Canada, Norway), to purchase from professional consultancies:
- A very specific country analysis concerning easily understandable information on legal, regulatory (general and with reference to railway supplies, ICT, electronics, railway construction and maintenance…), taxation, labour law and other aspects that need to be known to prepare with full awareness offers for public procurements
- An extract from the overall country analysis in form of “Handbook for first-line consultancies”
- A set of training sessions for the Partners in order for them to better understand the contents of the analysis and be better prepared to deliver first-line consultancies to their SMEs
- Training materials explaining – under an intercultural point of view – the work culture in the target countries and how to get prepared to communicate in long-term business relationships.
These outputs will enable the Partners to draft their own Internationalisation Strategy and Implementation Roadmap and actively support their SMEs to participate to public procurements in the target countries.
The S-ACCESS project is promoted by 7 Cluster organisations operating in the field of railway technologies, also extended to multi-modal technologies related to freight and logistics.